Olive color (#808000)
Olive is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword olive
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #808000, which is rgb(128, 128, 0) in RGB.
It is a medium, moderately saturated cool color with a hue angle of 60° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 58% in OKLCH. On a olive background, black text gives the higher contrast at 5.00:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Olive color codes
| CSS name | olive |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #808000 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #808000FF |
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| RGB | rgb(128, 128, 0) |
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| HSL | hsl(60, 100%, 25%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(60, 100%, 50%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(58.1% 0.1266 109.8) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(0%, 0%, 100%, 49.8%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for olive used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of olive
Tints mix olive with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with olive
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Olive with color blindness
Approximately how olive appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using olive in CSS
.element {
color: olive;
background-color: #808000;
border-color: rgb(128 128 0 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(58.1% 0.1266 109.8);
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